Nephrectomy

Nephrectomy is an operation that involves removing part of the kidney. There are two types of this procedure: resection and nephrectomy. Resection is the removal of a small part of the kidney to treat benign tumors, and nephrectomy is the entire kidney for malignant tumors. Operations of this kind are performed only in some cases when other treatment methods are not effective.

Most often, nephrectomy is performed